Medicines coverage through health insurance schemes can be a scalable and sustainable means to
improving access to and use of medicines. Evidence-based medicines policy decision making is required to
achieve maximum benefits at affordable costs. The WHOCCPP offers unique modular Courses in Medicines
Policy Analysis. Training is tailored to the needs of a particular organization or group of organizations.

MedIC Courses in Medicines Policy Analysis are primarily intended for policy makers, analysts, actuaries,
and others involved in making medicines decisions for health and insurance
organizations.

The highly interactive MedIC Courses consist of small and large group case discussions and small
group hands-on analyses of health care organization and insurance
scheme data. Participants focus on a specific medicines policy
issues relevant to their systems and develop post-course plans to design and implement policy interventions
to improve key outcomes. The course language usually is English; conducting the course in other languages
is possible.

Selected MedIC Course Topics

MedIC Course participants and facilitators address a broad range of questions that arise when making
evidence-based medicines policy decisions, including:

Why extend coverage for medicines in health insurance
schemes?

Which groups of enrollees benefit the most from expanded medicines coverage?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of specific medicines policies?

What is the best way to design, implement, and manage a formulary?

How can routine medicines data be used to develop evidence-based policies?

How can insurance schemes evaluate the effects of changes in medicines coverage?

What are the best measures for routine monitoring of medicines policies?

MedIC Course in
Beijing, China, March 2009.
In the future, we plan for MedIC capacity building activities to
include in-person learning collaboratives and mentored
on-the-job learning, as well as web-based tutorials, on-line
interactive learning, on-site technical assistance by project
staff, and exchange visits among insurance schemes.